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Re:Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their c... by pjc50 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:02AM (#23078659)
Realistically that means no brand lasting longer than about ten years, and the total elimination of lots of century-old brands that people have fond relationships with. It's a stupidly excessive hammer that fails to address the real problems. And it's probably going to suffer the obvious free speech challenges.
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Re:Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their c... by throwawaylolx on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:59AM (#23079058)
> lots of century-old brands that people have fond relationships with.

That's the problem being discussed--the fond relationships are built with entities that no longer exist, and it is argued that current brand practices are deceiving for the consumer side of the relationship and abusive on the producer side.

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Re:Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their c... by dTal on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @09:43AM (#23079917)
"Free speech" is a ridiculous charge to level at this. The concept of a government-protected trademark is itself a restriction on free speech in the first place, as are all consumer-protection labeling laws.
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